单选题Questions 14～17 are based on the following dialogue.

单选题There ______ many apples on the table. [A]are [B]is [C]have

单选题Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on your ANSWER SHEET. {{B}}Text{{/B}} An animal species becomes extinct when it fails to produce enough young in each generation to keep pace with the death-rate. We can{{U}} (26) {{/U}}from fossil evidence in rocks that many living species have become extinct over the millions of years{{U}} (27) {{/U}}life began. It is a natural{{U}} (28) {{/U}}and extinction is the{{U}} (29) {{/U}}of any animal that has specialized too far to change{{U}} (30) {{/U}}its environment changes, or has to compete with a better-{{U}} (31) {{/U}}and more powerful animal. {{U}}(32) {{/U}}remarkable technical developments during the past few centuries, man has destroyed or{{U}} (33) {{/U}}destroyed some species by killing them{{U}} (34) {{/U}}such a rate that they couldn't produce enough offspring, or by completely changing their natural environment at surprising speed. A number of examples can be given of the way{{U}} (35) {{/U}}which natural environments are being rapidly changed—Amazonia, for instance. There is every{{U}} (36) {{/U}}that many species of animals will be made extinct because of these and similar{{U}} (37) {{/U}}of natural vegetation. Large numbers of animals have been hunted and killed for food. The North American buffalo is a{{U}} (38) {{/U}}of the near-extinction of a species through hunting. Often the numbers are{{U}} (39) {{/U}}great that the hunters may not realize the danger. But even when the danger is widely{{U}} (40) {{/U}}, the financial rewards for the hunters may be so great that they choose to{{U}} (41) {{/U}}the threat to the species. Attitudes like this have{{U}} (42) {{/U}}to hunters killing animals for furs, for ivory or merely for ornaments. A slight{{U}} (43) {{/U}}on this is when tourists hunt animals for trophies. Such magnificent creatures{{U}} (44) {{/U}}lions and tigers{{U}} (45) {{/U}}out of existence in some parts of the world.

单选题When a 13-year-old Virginia girl started sneezing, her parents thought it was merely a cold. But when the sneezes continued for hours, they called in a doctor. Nearly two months later the girl was still sneezing, thousands of times a day, and her case had attracted worldwide attention. Hundreds of suggestions, ranging from "put a clothes pin on her nose" to "have her stand on her head" poured in. But nothing did any good. Finally, she was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital where Dr. Leo Kanner, one of the world's top authorities on sneezing, solved the baffling (难以理解的) problem with great speed. He used neither drugs nor surgery, curiously enough, the clue for the treatment was found in an ancient superstition about the amazing bodily reaction we call the sneeze. It was all in her mind, he said, a view which Aristotle, some 3,000 years earlier, would have agreed with heartily. Dr. Kanner simply gave a modem psychological interpretation to the ancient belief that too much sneezing was an indication that the spirit was troubled; and he began to treat the girl accordingly. "Less than two days in a hospital room, a plan for better scholastic and vocational adjustment, and reassurance about her unreasonable fear of tuberculosis quickly changed her from a sneezer to an ex-sneezer," he reported. Sneezing has always been a subject of wonder, awe and puzzlement. Dr. Kanner has collected thousands of superstitions concerning it. The most universal one is the custom of begging for the blessing of God when a person sneezes—a practice Dr. Kanner traces back to the ancient belief that a sneeze was an indication that the sneezer was possessed of an evil spirit. Strangely, people over the world still continue the custom with the traditional, "God bless you" or its equivalent. When scientists look at the sneeze, they see a remarkable mechanism which, without any conscious help from you, takes on a job that has to be done. When you need to sneeze you sneeze, this being nature's clever way of getting rid of an annoying object from the nose. The object may be just some dust in the nose which nature is striving to remove.

单选题The people who were watching from the beach ______.

单选题According to the passage how many miles long was the trench that became known as the Grand Canyon?

单选题What does the man mean?

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单选题Questions 11-13 are based on the story you are going to hear.

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单选题{{B}}Text 2{{/B}} When his plane touched down at Montreal's international airport, David LaRoche collected his luggage and headed for the airport parking garage, where he left his brand-new car-three weeks earlier. But the car wasn't there. LaRoche found a police officer, who gave him the bad news:his Audi A6 most likely had been absorbed into a vast black car market some- where in Eastern Europe of Africa. LaRoche, who flies out of Montreal because it is the closest major airport to his northern Vermont home, is not alone. Countless U. S. travelers use Montreal's airport because of its convenient location and competitive prices, which it promotes in radio ads in New Eng-land. Not surprisingly, the ads don't mention that more than 200 cars are stolen every year from the airport's parking lots. Professional thieves search the airport's long-term parking garages for cars that are relatively free of dust and have U. S. license plates—a lack of dust means that a car was parked recently, and Americans often travel for weeks on end. Says a Canadian car-theft investigator: "That gives the bad guys a lot of time to do whatever they want with the car." What they do, typically, is take the stolen cars to Montreal's harbor, wheree they are concealed inside huge containers to be taken overseas. In little more than a week, the cars are on the street in Russia or countries in Africa of Asia. Police assert that Canada's most powerful car-theft rings are controlled by Russian crime organizations. Airport officials downplay the problem. "You have to put things in perspective... when you have so many cars parked at your airport every year," says Montreal's director of airport protection. "It's not a major problem. "But the Montreal airport's car-theft problem—police recorded 220 stolen cars last year—is far worse than other international airports in North America. Last year, for example, only 65 cars were stolen from parking lots at Los Angeles's airport; Boston's Logan airport had only four reported thefts. So now David La- Roche will head to Logan, his next-closest major airport. It's a longer drive, but that's OK if it saves his new car.

单选题What is Ms. Bush's main purpose for the trip?

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单选题What'swrongwithTomaccordingtothedialogue?[A]Hemisseshisbirthdayparty.[B]Hedoesn'twanttogotohospital.[C]Hehasacoldandhisthroathurts.

单选题Text Every now and then we buy some faulty goods. Here is a typical example: you buy a pair of shoes. A week later a strap comes right (26) making the shoes unwearable. What should you do? Although there is no obligation (27) you to return the goods, it is (28) to take them back as soon as you (29) the defect. If it is impracticable for you to return to the shop (30) , per haps because you live a long way off, or because the goods are bulky, write to say that you are dissatisfied (31) the product and ask for collection arrangements to be (32) Any unexplained or unreasonable (33) will weaken your case. Many people believe that the initial complaint about faulty goods should be made to the manufacturer. This is not the (34) .Your contract is with the retailer, the (35) who sold you the goods, and so it is to him (36) your complaint should be made. It is always a good (37) to ask for the manager in a shop or the departmental manager in a large store. In asking for a person in authority you also show that you (38) business right from the (39) Don' t be fobbed off with the (40) response that the manager is "in a meeting" or "away". (41) that someone must have been left in (42) and that you'll see that person. (43) that, register your complaint with the assistant and make an appointment to (44) back and see the manager at a mutually (45) time.

单选题Questions 18～21 are based on the following dialogue.